Aviation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944738099Author Karlene PetittFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Jet Star PublishingPublisher Jet Star PublishingWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

More than forty years after its cancellation, the BAC TSR2 is still a controversial aircraft. Years ahead of its time, it was abruptly cancelled by a new government when flight testing had ony just begun. Built to a demanding RAF requirement , the BAC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352698Author Allan S WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental...

The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England, from the brilliant author of Britain's War MachineThe history of England and the aeroplane is one tangled with myths - of 'the Few'...

Illustrated with detailed artworks of Japanese aircraft and their markings, Japanese Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the aircraft deployed by the Japanese military from the Second Sino-Japanese War to the surrender in the Pacific in...

Published to coincide with the 80th birthday of the Spitfire this is a gripping and visually spectacular volume, which celebrates the life of Britain's most iconic military aircraft. The Spitfire turns 80 on 5 March 2016, and the passion for the...

To the fifteen passengers and crew onboard the lumbering Short Sunderland flying boat, everything appeared normal and routine as it lifted off from the seaplane base at RAF Invergordon on Sunday, 25 August 1942. Its destination was Iceland, where one of...

During the Second World War, RAF Lancaster bombers took the conflict into the very heart of Hitler's Third Reich, and flew some of the most daring operations of the war. Surprisingly, of the 7,377 Lancasters built only two survive today, one in Britain...

When Winston Churchill delivered his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in 1946, he mentioned two words now engrained in Anglo-American terminology - 'special relationship'. Nowhere is the 'special relationship' more evident than in the scores of airfields...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809990Author David J SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingWeight(grams) 120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781476728742Author David McCulloughFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon...

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By some margin the most successful British medium-range airliner ever produced, the world-beating Viscount was a sublime combination of Vickers' state-of-the-art postwar design and Rolls-Royce's cutting-edge power-plant technology, both companies being...

For those who wish to broaden their knowledge of jet engine technology and associated subjects. It covers turbojet, turboprop and turbofan designs and is applicable to civilian and military usage. Starting with an overview of the main design types and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908476876Author Hans-Ulrich RudelFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Black House PublishingPublisher Black House PublishingWeight(grams) 358g

The revolutionary X-15 remains the fastest manned aircraft ever to fly. Built in the two decades following World War II, it was the most successful of the high-speed X-planes. The only recently broken 'sound barrier' was smashed completely by the X-15,...

In Heroes of Coastal Command, Andrew Bird examines the maritime war between 1939 and 1945, interweaving accounts of events of the period with personal stories of individuals caught up in them. Through interviews, letters, diaries and reports, all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857803495Author Jonathan FalconerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579243Author Air Vice Marshall 'Jonnie' JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

It could be argued that the heyday of British military aircraft flight testing began in the 1940s, and continued throughout the three decades that followed, during the so-called Cold War period, and as such, the authors have purposely chosen the first 30...

In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic...

The de Havilland DH 98 Mosquito was one of the fastest and most versatile aircraft of the Second World War. One of the first multi-role aircraft, it was used for reconnaissance and also as a fighter, fighter-bomber, night fighter and interceptor. This...

Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all...

The British & Colonial Aeroplane Company was established in 1910 at Filton on a site that is now an Airbus design and engineering centre. BAE Systems also has facilities at Filton. Bristol aircraft engines were first built at the nearby Patchway site in...

An illuminating look at how human vulnerability led to advances in aviation technology.As aircraft flew higher, faster, and farther in the early days of flight, pilots were exposed as vulnerable, inefficient, and dangerous. They asphyxiated or got the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991157645Author Fletcher McKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Squabbling Sparrows PressPublisher Squabbling Sparrows PressWeight(grams)...

The first efforts of man to fly were limited by his ability to generate sufficient power to lift a heavier-than-air machine off the ground. Propulsion and thrust have therefore been the most fundamental elements in the development of aircraft engines. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644252932Author Bob GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Aviation Supplies & AcademicsPublisher Aviation Supplies & AcademicsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775283423Author Larry VanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Group of Three PublishingPublisher Group of Three Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957374461Author Günter EndresFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Endres and HobsterPublisher Endres and HobsterWeight(grams) 785g

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The B-24 Liberator remains to this day the world's most produced heavy bomber and multi-engine aircraft, and the most-produced military aircraft in US history, with almost 19,000 examples leaving the assembly lines of five plants. Through a broad range...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983696209Author Bastian Jakob LiebermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Bajali PublishingPublisher Bajali PublishingWeight(grams)...

Gatwick's very first jetliner touched down on 16 November 1958, and over the next fifty years the airport grew to become Britain's second busiest airport, as well as the busiest single-runway airport in the world.Classic Gatwick Jetliners is the...

The Great War Display Team was founded in 1988 and has since gone on to become one of Britain's premier display teams, with a wealth of talented pilots passing through its ranks and amazing crowds with a variety of recreated aircraft including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658498Author Mathew WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 245mm...

The story of one of greatest technological achievements of the 20th century told from a pilot's-eye view, which will appeal to all enthusiasts of modern aviation. From her first commercial flight in 1976, and throughout 27 years of service, Concorde...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615214726Author Ed DoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Ed DoverPublisher Ed DoverWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

'A stone cold classic. One of the best military aviaton memoirs ever written' Rowland White, author of Vulcan 607 'I only have to think Speed, and I am at 600 knots in seconds. Think Height and I am gazing down from a eight-mile-high perch within one...